Kinda embarrassing to Egyptians actors to have a Syrian actor performing as an Egyptian king but I heard many of them were offered the role and rejected it because they were scared of being hated.
Anyway, I like the charisma of this guy, plus his mastering of Egyptian accent is amazing as well.
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Lazeez! I have been watching him in Cairo and I too am in love. He also played Nezar Qabbani. What a brilliant young man. And this slight accent he might have here and there is actually good for the role because it sounds so classy, as if he's really King Farouk.
But this woman playing Nazly (Wafaa Amer ) is so not suitable. She's too vulgar to play a queen. Same applies to Farida impersonator.
We have to admit it, the Syrians are coming with a vengeance. They are great actors and directors. Yes yes I know I know and their women are good enough to eat
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So sad. I have seen the clip. He's mad at her for not giving him a son. They even divorced for the same reason. Posts: 8756 | From: Tax-Free Zone | Registered: Jul 2005
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Finally we see a true picture of King Farounk other than the shallow hilarious characters inspired by the revolution period.
I'll agree without any hesitation in regardes to Wafa Amer. Her face doesn't show any emotions mafeesh e7sas khales.
But Menna Fadaly is cute , I kinda like her.
Lamis Gaber is what you said exactly, and I heard Yaheia was offered the role but rejected it as well but there's a project with Hatem Aly about Mohamed Aly which Yahia will do and Lamis is writing or perhaps already wrote but this is going to be a movie.
You're not familiar with Hatem Aly, This is the guy who practically got the Syrian historical drama above the Egyptian one recently and he's only in his 40s. Series like Milouk el tawaef, Saqr Quraish and others have beaten all recent Egyptian historical drama easily.
He's one of the reasons I was looking for King Farouk.
Despite his talents, he will remain a director of old history drama, Egypt gave him a slip to recent history which is something he can't do in Syria because of the strict regime. Too bad he's unable to use this talent to draw a picture of his own country.
You can tell by the picture of King Farouk and style of directing that it looks different from Egyptian ones, Yet I can tell you that wasn't his best.
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Fakharany is too old and fat to play anyone anymore. I can't believe this man and his wife and kids. The family is mostly doctors and still, I swear they could weigh close to a ton altogether.
Unfortunately I don't know Hatem Aly. Was he also the director of Nizar Qabbani? Man, that was a brilliant job. The only thing that bothered me in Nizar Qabbani's series is the incredible amount of nose jobs those Syrian actresses had undergone. Has the "Rhino-virus" crossed the Syrian borders from Lebanon?!
You know Lazeez, there were some Egyptian actors objecting on having Syrians invading our media world, and that they were "cutting the bread of the Egyptians", but I'm actually very happy that we are finally learning a lesson from such creative people. It's about time for the media in Egypt to get some class. I have had it with farsh el-melaya art. Although Raya w'Skeena was absolutely brilliant.
And this name "Tayem" is so incredibly cute. It translates to "infatuated" or "lovelorn". For the foreign readers among us; Arabic names have to have meanings.
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Well, I couldn't understand those Egyptian actors because since day one of Egyptian Cinema there were always many foreigners involved. And this is what made our Old movies that good. You have the talents of Egyptian writers (No one can beat Egyptians in writing movies or songs) and all types of actors you can choose between .
What makes Syrian actors a good choice now isn't really the class, been very involved into Syrian community I haven't seen much difference from Egyptians, nor it's the talent but the fact that Syrians haven't yet been taken by the Egyptian stupid system of 'STARS' . Any actor in Syria will accept anything you offer as long as it's good but in Egypt the first thing they care about is whose name will come first in the AD.
It's a matter of time and Syrians will be no different. The Egyptian system beats others eventually
Lebanese celebrities, by the way, are the worst when it comes to working together. They hate each other guts.
El Fakharani is one of my favourite actors, you may be surprised but if you're into decent actors , he is one of them beside he makes me laugh.
His TV series Hamada isn't bad really.
Gamal Soliman is going down every year now, hopefully Tayem wont take the same path. but I kinda think the recent Egyptian love with Syrian actors wont last for long. They will eventually be Egyptianized or simply become boring Like Gamal Soliman
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My dad and Fakharany knew each other from student times, and dad always said he was one of the most decent men he'd ever known. But my God the man is so annoyingly morbidly obese, that you never see him as a whole on the screen unless he's at least a 100 meters away!!
But Lazeez, are you into the show business or what?
Don't tell me you're a celebrity. I have had my share of surprises on this site already.
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Oh I picked ElSawy because he posts on another purely Egyptian forum I have joined recently (which is obviously infested with actors) and you and him have a very similar style. But isn't he more of a director?
And about the celebrities on ES, or rather close family members of them, I'm sorry I have no permission to mention names, but they are within a well-known family of directors, actors, and singers.
And about Sono, I guess she finally managed to piss Sammy off for real.
OH and about Sammy, I have found out that he and I have some mutual friends in Egypt, and they showed me his picture. He is so cute, my God! But oh, I can't say that about a dude to another dude.
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